Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass (Psalm 37:4-5).

Who are you listening to?

As we grow in our spirituality we must of necessity learn to discern the difference between the voice of the Lord and that of the devil. Too often we get our stuff together and then tell God what we have decided to do. So because we are good speakers and can use our gifting sensibly, we trust in our abilities rather than in what God says.

God is a God of order that is, there is a definite structure about the way he does things. Once we stop relying on him and start to rely on our own strength and abilities, then he will just let us get on with it. This is why the psalmist encourages us to do the following:

1. Delight ourselves in the Lord. This means that we must find our pleasure, our joy or our fulfilment in the Lord. Then he will give us the desires of our hearts. We can be the smartest cookie in the pack, but if we do not find all our pleasures in the Lord, then we will get eaten.
2. Commit our ways to the Lord. Many Christians today are walking in rebellion because they do not want to be under authority. Anything that starts in rebellion will constantly rise and fall like a roller-coaster.
3. Trust also in him and he will bring it to pass. When we trust the Lord, we do not have to struggle for things to happen or for him to bring us to make the right connection. When we are in our rightful place and are walking by faith, then God will change things around so that we get the favour we deserve.

Today learn to discern the voice of the Lord and like young Samuel, whose name mean the God who hears, listen to what he says.

Read Psalm 37 and meditate on the above verses.